How will you remember RJJ?

One of the greatest boxers ever -- and a criminally underrated technician who was punished by boxing fans and "experts" because he boxed to his athleticism. A lot of the shit he did in his prime, while unorthodox, was technically sound. Yeah he "got away with it' because he was a freak athlete, but similar to Tyson, he also "got away with it" because he knew wtf he was doing.

He was only ever "exposed' after he came back down from Heavyweight, which is when all of the armchair QB's and hindsight 20/20 types crawled out of the woodwork to try to rewrite his legacy in order to make him out to be a lesser fighter. Before he jumped to HW he was untouchable.
 


That fadeaway hook style is really fun to watch and I think he just wanted to be fun to watch.
 
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